Abstract
New evidence is presented that Richard Price gave Thomas Bayes’s famous essay a very different title from the commonly reported one. It is argued that this implies Price almost surely and Bayes not improbably embarked upon this work seeking a defensive tool to combat David Hume on an issue in theology.
Citation
Stephen M. Stigler. "The True Title of Bayes’s Essay." Statist. Sci. 28 (3) 283 - 288, August 2013. https://doi.org/10.1214/13-STS438
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